Ride Along *½

Tim Story directed this Action/Comedy. Watch Preview Cast: Ice Cube, Kevin Hart, John Leguizamo, Bruce McGill, Tika Sumpter, Bryan Callen, Laurence Fishburne. Rated PG-13 for sequences of violence, sexual content and brief strong language. Running time is one hour and fifty minutes.

When a fast-talking guy (Hart) joins his girlfriend’s brother (Ice Cube)—a hot-tempered cop—to patrol the streets of Atlanta, he gets entangled in the officer's latest case.

I had some hope for this film as Hart can be very funny. Not so this time around; he's just annoying and the plot is simply stupid. The man never shuts up so even if what he's saying was funny you'd be really tired of hearing it after a short while. The plot is extremely predictable, you've seen it many, many times before. The only plus I can think of is the lovely girlfriend/sister (Sumpter) but it doesn't take long before you're wondering what she can possibly see in Hart. Younger crowds will probably find this funnier than I did but mature audiences should plan on avoiding this one.

There are no additional scenes once the final credits begin. Screen size is unimportant although watching with a large audience may make it seem funnier. Theatres/Times.